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'Chicago' plays its 7,486th performance

Chicago is an American musical with music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb, and book by Ebb and Bob Fosse. The Broadway revival holds the record as the longest-running musical revival and the longest-running American musical in Broadway history.

'No Man's Land' and 'Waiting for Godot' open

No Man's Land is a play by Harold Pinter written in 1974 and first produced and published in 1975. Waiting for Godot is a play by Samuel Beckett, in which two characters, Vladimir and Estragon, wait for the arrival of someone named Godot who never arrives, and while waiting they engage in a variety of discussions.

'Fela!' opens on Broadway

Fela! is a musical with a book by Bill T. Jones and Jim Lewis, based on music and lyrics by the late Nigerian singer Fela Kuti, with additional music by Aaron Johnson and Jordan McLean and additional lyrics by Jim Lewis. It is based on events in the life of groundbreaking Nigerian composer and activist Fela Anikulapo Kuti.

Broadway revival of 'White Christmas' opens

White Christmas is a musical based on the Paramount Pictures 1954 film of the same name. White Christmas played a limited engagement on Broadway at the Marquis Theatre, which ran for 53 performances and 12 previews. The production was directed by Walter Bobbie and choreographed by Randy Skinner.

Broadway revival of 'Wonderful Town' opens

Wonderful Town is a 1953 musical with a book written by Joseph A. Fields and Jerome Chodorov, lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, and music by Leonard Bernstein. The musical tells the story of two sisters who aspire to be a writer and actress respectively, seeking success from their basement apartment in New York City's Greenwich Village.

Areopagitica a pamphlet by John Milton is published

Areopagitica is a prose polemic by the English poet, scholar, and polemical author John Milton opposing licensing and censorship. Areopagitica is among history's most influential and impassioned philosophical defenses of the principle of a right to freedom of speech and expression. Areopagitica was published at the height of the English Civil War.

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Roald Dahl

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